Portland artist-in-residence program hosts opening event with UO faculty member at South Waterfront neighborhood
Michael Salter teaches digital arts at UO in Portland and launches new studio residency
EUGENE, Ore. -- (April 16, 2009) Art professor Michael Salter will take his Styrofoam creations and visual art to a new neighborhood this spring. Salter is living and working in Portland as an “Artist in Residence,” a partnership established by the South Waterfront Community Relations program and the UO’s Department of Art. Salter will also be teaching at the UO in Portland. An opening event is scheduled for Wed., April 22, 6-8 p.m. at the John Ross Plaza Studio, 3623 S.W. River Parkway in Portland. Guests must bring Styrofoam as entry ticket. Event is free. Other open studio hours will be on Sundays all day, Monday-Wednesday evenings until June 10.
The Department of Art’s digital arts program has developed this new faculty residency with the UO in Portland and the South Waterfront Community Relations program. The South Waterfront 20/20 Art, Culture, and Science Committee, a resident committee in the neighborhood district, advised on the goals of the “Artist in Residence” program. Salter’s new residency coincides with his teaching in the bachelor of fine arts digital arts program at the White Stag Block.
The South Waterfront’s innovative architectural vision of an urban community provides these artists with live/work space in its soaring, LEED-certified glass towers. Digital arts professor, Michael Salter, whose work often employs recycled materials and is grounded in street culture, will spend his residency creating an artwork at South Waterfront and preparing for an exhibition in Brussels, Belgium. His residency demonstrates the university’s commitment to contribute to regional and global conversations in art, design, and sustainability.
Each term a new artist will live and create in the South Waterfront neighborhood while teaching at UO in Portland. Artists have access to a ground floor studio space and will host open events and studio hours for the neighborhood residents.
For more information, visit www.southwaterfront.com/art_and_design/artist
About the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a world-class teaching and research institution and Oregon's flagship public university. The UO is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an organization made up of the 62 leading public and private research institutions in the United States and Canada. The University of Oregon is one of only two AAU members in the Pacific Northwest.
Contact: Karen Johnson, AAA communications, karenjj@uoregon.edu, 541-346-3603
Source: Michael Salter, sowaartist@gmail.com, 503-222-7788; Lesley Poirier, 503-972-2830, Lesley@southwaterfront.com